Crafting a Strategy for Social Media, and More: Tuesday’s Roundup

October 6, 2009, 11:50 am

While social media are becoming more popular, Jewish organizations and other charities need to craft a communications strategy before using Facebook, Twitter, and the rest, writes Gail Hyman, a charity consultant, on the eJewish Philanthropy blog.

Nonprofit “dashboards” — documents that summarize the financial health of an organization and whether it is meeting its charitable goals — are valuable tools as long as charities and foundations think creatively about them and acknowledge their limitations, writes Anne Marie Burgoyne, portfolio director for the Draper Richards Foundation, in San Francisco. Her views appear on a Good magazine blog.